Clement Attlee, the Labour Party’s longest serving leader and prime minister from 1945–1951, belongs in the top tier of Britain’s post-war leaders. Surveys for Britain’s best prime minister usually ...
For anyone with what used to be called “progressive tendencies,” the best, if largely overlooked, book of last year was surely John Bew’s biography of Clement Attlee, the leader of the British Labour ...
Clement Attlee was the most consistently underestimated politician of modern times. Bald, mustachioed, unassuming, quiet, as averse to grandiloquence and grandstanding as Churchill was addicted to ...
Clement Attlee leaving No 10 Downing Street in 1949. ‘Attlee’s greatest quality wasn’t succinctness – it was integrity.’Photograph: PA Martin Kettle rightly says Aneurin Bevan is the one politician ...
(JTA) — Clement Attlee, who served as prime minister of Britain in the aftermath of World War II, housed a refugee child who escaped from the Nazis just months before the start of the war, a British ...
UK PM Clement Attlee hosted Jewish boy fleeing Nazis in 1939, never spoke of it Then-Labour opposition leader opened home to Paul Willer, now 90 years old, who describes him as ‘a gentle man and a ...
Here’s a Christmas quiz: Which has been Britain’s most left-wing government? According to Paul Ormerod, it’s not the one you ...
Attlee turned in a stellar performance as Churchill’s wartime deputy. To begin with, he got along with Churchill, no mean feat. Many in the Labour Party felt that he was too deferential to the prime ...
The British people are preparing to pass sentence on an exhausted, fractious government. After years of utopian socialist planning, internal party feuding and the worst weather in living memory, the ...
Richard Attlee has not appeared on Broadway. How many West End shows has Richard Attlee been in? Richard Attlee has appeared on London's West End in 2 shows. What was Richard Attlee's first West End ...